Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Library
Research Resources

Major libraries and museums with online digital research collections, with an emphasis on regional and historical research collections. All links open in a new window.

• Alexandria Digital Library Project - Digital map collections at the University of California Santa Barbara.
• American Memory - Digital Collections of the Library of Congress
• Brigham Young University Digital Collections
• British Museum Compass
• California Digital Library (CDL)
• Canada's Digital Collections - Collections include over 600 web sites covering Canadian history, geography, science, technology and culture
• Celtic Digital Library - Contains digital links, artwork and information about the Celtic society from 400 B.C to 1500 A.D and Celtic Reconstruction of today.
• Center for Retrospective Digitization - Access to the digital collections at the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen, Germany, including the Gutenberg Bible, travel literature and North Americana from the 18th and 19th centuries, DIEPER (Digitized European Periodicals), historical mathematics materials, and Goethe illustrations.
• CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
• Colorado Digitization Project
• Cornell University Library Digital Collections
• Danish Electronic Research Library
• Digital Research Library (DRL) at the University of Pittsburgh
• Digital South Asia Library at the University of Chicago
• Everglades Digital Library - at Florida International University
• Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History
• Ibiblio.org - the public's library and digital archive
• Illinois Alive
• Indiana University Digital Library Program
• International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
• Internet Archive - A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
• Internet Moving Image Archive - A collection of hundreds of short films in MPEG-2 format
• Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives
• Kentucky Virtual Library
• Library of Virginia Digital Library Program
• Louisiana Digital Library
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague.
• National Library of New Zealand Digital Collections
• National Library of Scotland Digital Library
• National Library of Wales - The Digital Mirror
• National Science Digital Library (NSDL) - Comprehensive source for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
• North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library
• Online Archive of California
• Online Bilingual Library of Russian Literature
• Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) - Digital collections relating to the State of Florida
• Perseus Digital Library - Department of Classics, Tufts University. Classics, Papyri, English Renaissance
• Persian Digital Library
• Sagnanetið - Saganet project by the National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University with the association of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland to provide the entire range of Icelandic family sagas and other works published before 1900 online. Site in English and Icelandic.
• San Fernando Valley History Digital Library
• Simon Fraser University Library Electronic Document Centre
• St Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library provided by Lund University Library in Sweden
• SunSite - Digital Collections of the UC Berkeley
• University of Chicago Digital Library Activities
• University of Illinois Digital Projects
• University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service
• University of Pennsylvania Digital Library Project
• University of Tennessee Digital Library Center
• University of Texas System Digital Library
• University of Washington Digital Collections
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Victorian Women Writers Project at the University of Indiana
• VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia
• Washington State Digital Library Resources
• Washington State University Digital Collections
• Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collections
• Yale University Library Digital Collections